Europe’s surviving mine headframe and winding tower sites

Former Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield site with a preserved 1921 headframe and 1920 winding engine, listed as monument historique and UNESCO World Heritage.

Scheduled Monument and heritage museum preserving twin steam winders, steel headgear, and chimney from a Victorian colliery closed in 1983.

Closed coal shaft site at Germunde, the last underground workings of the Couto Mineiro do Pejão, closed in 1994, with surviving surface structures on private land.

Former mine shaft of the São João orebody within the Aljustrel complex, part of a nationally classified Iberian Pyrite Belt mining site.

Closed shaft site within the Minas de Aljustrel polymetallic sulphide complex, part of a mine first designated a monument in 1982 and now encompassed by the Parque Mineiro de Aljustrel.

Mine shaft site at Corte do Pinto associated with the São Domingos pyrite mining complex in the Iberian Pyrite Belt of the Alentejo.

Former coal shaft in central Mieres, Asturias, with a preserved 1941 riveted-iron headframe and buildings forming part of an industrial heritage park and geothermal energy scheme.

Closed Palencian coal shaft retaining its distinctive stone-masonry headframe, the only surviving example of its kind in Spain, with a mine interpretation centre nearby.

Closed Asturian coal shaft site at La Foz de Laviana, the easternmost vertical shaft in the Asturian mining basin, closed December 2018.

An active mining museum housed within a real lignite mine at Escucha, open to visitors since 2002 and unique in Spain.